CONTINUANCE OF PAY AND ALLOWANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00882R000300010058-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: November 29, 1951
• Content Type: MF

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29 November 1951
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, Career Service Committee
FROM : Working Group on Career Benefits
SUBJECT : Continuance of Pay and Allowance
1. Item I B of the Agenda of this Working Group, dated 29 October, 1951,
relates to extension of the authority, presently contained in paragraph 5.4 of
the Confidential Funds Regulations, which applies provisions of the Missing
Persons Act to CIA staff employees and staff agents. That Act generally pro-
vides for the continuation of normal pay and allowance where an employee is
interned, missing beleaguered, besieged, etc. There are further provisions
relating to procedures whereby a status of missing, or other type of status,
can be continued or terminated. The Act provides for determination by the head
of the agency concerned that the individual is dead. During the period of such
status, for example, the dependents of the individual may continue to receive
an appropriate amount for their needs from the salary normally due to the indi-
vidual.
2. The benefits of this Act are applied only to staff employees and staff
agents of CIA who are paid from unvouchered funds. It is believed that the de-
sirability and justification for such authority are quite obvious. However, it
is the opinion of this Group that, through an appropriate method, the benefits of
such Act, or similar provisions, be made available to all employees of CIA. In
addition to providing for equitable treatment of various employees of CIA, statu-
tory authorization of this type enables many administrative obstacles to be over-
come. For example, the law provides for a determination of death by the head othe agency concerned, which normally would be acceptable for other legal purposes,
such as settling the estate of the individual.
3. The Working Group discussed S 1820, which $ was s introdcedd by Mr. John Johnsston
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of South Carolina to accomplish substantially the purpose provisi
of the original Missing Persons Act, which will expire as a wartime statute upon
It has been learned that
ratification by the Senate of the Japanese Peace Treaty.
both the Civil Service Commission and the General Accounting Office have certain
objections to the Bill in its present form. This Group believes that the general
purposes of the proposed Bill would substantially accomplish the objectives indi-
cated above. Therefore, it is recommended that the Career Service Committee,
through whatsoever channels it deems appropriate, recommend that CIA support S. 1820.
It is evident that the progress of the Bill will have to be followed carefully in
order to insure that probable revisions will maintain it consistent with CIA objec-
tives. It would appear appropriate, if CIA takes this position, that responsibility
for action should be placed on the General Counsel's office for following the Bill
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and informing the appropriate Congressional Committees of CIA support for the
provisions of the Bill.
4. In view of the above, this Working Group believes that no further action
is necessary on Item I B of the Agenda of this Working Group.
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